Improvement in harvesters



A UNITED STATES APATENT `FFICE BENJAMIN wrELAND, or onANGnvrLnE, ILLINOIS.,`

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent bld/11,351, dated April 18,1865

To a/ZZ whom it may concern. y The cutters k project through the front side Be it known that I, BENJAMIN WIELAND, of the case* 9,and work through the ngers i, of Orangeville, in the county of. Stephenson and the sickle is operated by having `the puland -State of Illinois, have invented a new and leyl at the right-hand side 4of theemach' e pro: Improved Grain and Grrassi Harvester; and I vided withashaft, F, whichextendsupward, do hereby declare that the following isa full, and has a pinion, m, upon it, which is secured" clear, and exact description thereof, which will to the shaft F by a setfscrew, n. pinion" enable others skilled in the art to make and m gears into a wheel, o, on ahoriz ntal use, the same, reference being hadV to the ae- G, at the right-handsideof the machine, companying drawings, making a part of this shaft having a pinion, 1J, on itsbackfenlp` specification, in which y i e which a toothed "rim, l q, `attached concentri# Figure 1 represents a side sectional'view of cally to the wheel A, gears.` y 3 my invention taken, in the line .fr m, Fig. 2 5 Theuprights B are secured `in the bars a a Fig. 2, a plan or top view ofthe same. of the framing of the machine fbyfmean .oi

Similar letters of reference indicate like set-screws r; y l l i 3` parts. -i H is a reel, theshaft s of whichhas 1 s bea This invention relates to a new and `im-4 ings inthe front ends` of the barsaa, saidgshat proved grain and grass `harvester designed having a pulley,t, at one end of it, around for manual operation. i p i p which a belt orcord, u, passesfromfafpulley, The framing of the machine consists of two c, on the axle d. l The arms fw ofthe reel H parallelbars, a a, the back ends of which serve overlap each other and pass through the shalt as handles, as shown at b b. The bars a a are s, and are secured by setgscrews cf, the arms connectedV by a crossbar, c, underneath which having theusual beaters,` b,f attached to their is an axle, d, having wheels A A on its ends, outer ends. By this arrangement it willb which wheels support the machine. The wheel seen that the reel, maybeincreased or dimin-A A is attached permanently to its axle d, while ished in diameter as `may beI required, "and the wheel A is placed loosely upon it, so as this varying of the diameterofthereelis,necto turn independently of the axle when the essary in order to compensateforthe varying machine is backed, but engages with the axle height of the sickle,` which may be raised and when themachine is shoved forward by means lowered by loosening the set-screw` of, so as to of a pawl, e, and ratchet f. raise and lower the uprightsB. g f l B B B B represent four uprights,which pass In order to convert thedevice into a mowthrough loops or mortises in the bars a c, two ing machina the platform D is simply r uprights passing through each bar a. To the moved and also the reel. e y lower ends of the bars B a frame, Cis at The machine as awholeisextremely simple tached, on which the platform D is secured, may be constructedat a small`cost andope and at the front part ofthe frame C there is a ated by hand with` ease.`

sickle-case7 g, formed of two parallel horizon p Having thus described myinvcntion, I claim tal plates, hh, to the lower one of i which iinas new and desire to secure by Letterslatent# gers 'i are attached. i e The combination of the adjustableplatfor E represents the sickle, Awhich is composed D, uprights yB,` andgthe endless sickle, co e of an endless chain, j, each link having a cutstructed as described, and operated through ter, la, attached to it of V form. Ihe chain j the medium of `,the ;spu`r-wheel g, pinion works around two polygonal pulleys, Z- Z, one bevel-gearing o m, shaft F, and polygonal pul `at each end of the case g, the sides ofthe 'pul ley, as describedand represented.YL`

leys Z being equal in length to the llinks ofthe BENJAMINWIELAND chain j. By this arrangement the chain is Witnesses: p i :f e A e y i' eiiectually prevented from slipping on the pul- I. B. SrEINMErz, 

